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Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/ḱm̥tóm
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Proto-Indo-European
Alternative forms
- *h₁ḱm̥tóm (< *dḱm̥tóm)
Etymology
Some sort of derivation from *déḱm̥ (“ten”) (with Pre-IE *d lost or merged with *h₁ in the same way the initial dental obstruent was lost in the oblique cases of *dʰéǵʰōm (“earth”)), perhaps its ordinal number (*déḱm̥ + *-ó-). If so then this could come from some phrase, "tenth", whose substantive noun can only be conjectured.
Numeral
| < 90 | 100 | 1,000 > |
|---|---|---|
| Cardinal : *ḱm̥tóm | ||
*ḱm̥tóm or *dḱm̥tóm (uninflected)
- hundred
Descendants
- Proto-Balto-Slavic: *śímta < (< *ḱḿ̥tom) (see there for further descendants)
- Proto-Celtic: *kantom (see there for further descendants)
- Proto-Germanic: *hundą (see there for further descendants)
- Proto-Hellenic: *hekətón (see there for further descendants)
- Proto-Indo-Iranian: *ćatám (see there for further descendants)
- Proto-Italic: *kentom (see there for further descendants)
- Proto-Tocharian: *känte[1] (see there for further descendants)
References
- Sihler, Andrew L. (1995) New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN
- Adams, Douglas Q. (2013), “kante”, in A Dictionary of Tocharian B: Revised and Greatly Enlarged (Leiden Studies in Indo-European; 10), Amsterdam, New York: Rodopi, →ISBN, pages 146-147